{"id":24420,"date":"2016-11-12T19:36:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T03:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24420"},"modified":"2016-11-12T19:36:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T03:36:38","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-12112016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/12\/squatchs-open-thread-12112016\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch&#8217;s Open Thread 12\/11\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">As I cruise through the internet now,&nbsp;I always find too much to share. &nbsp;Before the election, I thought the US would have Madame President-elect and the tempo would quiet down a bit. &nbsp;Instead, the US got Herr President-elect, Fuhrer Drumphenfarten as TC would say. &nbsp;Things will not quiet down but instead ramp up like never before. Stay tuned to <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Politics Plus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">as we continue to fight against&nbsp;Fuhrer Drumphenfarten and the fifth Reich.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Youtube &#8212; <\/strong>Finally, someone is actually taking responsibility for Herr Drumphenfarten&nbsp;win last Tuesday . . . well sort of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s1SaD-gSZO4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Bee is so funny and astute . . . and Canadian! (well now with joint Canadian-American citizenship).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/11\/11\/prediction-professor-who-called-trumps-big-win-also-made-another-forecast-trump-will-be-impeached\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Washington Post<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;<\/strong>Few&nbsp;prognosticators predicted a Donald Trump victory ahead of Tuesday night. Polls showed Hillary Clinton comfortably ahead, and much of America (chiefly the media) failed to anticipate the wave of pro-Trump support that propelled him to victory. But a Washington, D.C.-based professor insisted that Trump was lined up for a win &mdash; based on the idea that elections are &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/05\/12\/this-professor-has-predicted-every-presidential-election-since-1984-hes-still-trying-to-figure-out-2016\/\">primarily a reflection on the performance of the party in power.<\/a>&rdquo;&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of our September conversation, Lichtman made another call: that if elected, Trump would eventually be impeached&nbsp;by a Republican Congress that would prefer a President Mike Pence &mdash; someone whom establishment Republicans know and trust.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#39;m going to make another prediction,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This one is not based on a system; it&#39;s just my gut. They don&#39;t want Trump as president, because they can&#39;t control him. He&#39;s unpredictable. They&#39;d love to have Pence &mdash; an absolutely down-the-line, conservative, controllable Republican. And I&#39;m quite certain Trump will give someone grounds for impeachment, either by doing something that endangers national security or because it helps his pocketbook.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Click through for the remainder of the article. &nbsp;I don&#39;t know Lichtman but his gut prediction makes sense. Fuhrer Drumphenfarten is an impulsive person given to doing only what benefits him. &nbsp;Others have said they see a possible impeachment within a year. &nbsp;Others are calling for impeachment now. &nbsp;After that, it will be President Pence for the remainder of the 4 year term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Youtube <\/strong>&#8212; And now a word or two from Bill Maher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MerM3troeAA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Bill is funny, irreverent, and spot on!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ontario-judges-pro-trump-baseball-cap-causes-courthouse-uproar\/article32810847\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Globe and Mail<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; An Ontario Court judge wore a &ldquo;Make America Great Again&rdquo; hat in his courtroom the day after the U.S. election to mark president-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;historic&rdquo; victory, according to a source in the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Ontario Court Justice Bernd Zabel arrived at the John Sopinka courthouse in Hamilton on Wednesday morning wearing Mr. Trump&rsquo;s signature campaign hat, according to the source, and addressed the numerous lawyers, police officers and defendants. Another witness in the courtroom did not dispute the details.<\/p>\n<p><!-- This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone --><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The incident has prompted an outcry from legal observers who say Justice Zabel&rsquo;s political display undermines the public&rsquo;s confidence in judicial impartiality. And they are particularly upset because Mr. Trump has made disparaging remarks about women and minorities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fsk_splitbox_266\" id=\"fsk_splitbox_266\" style=\"height: 0px; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trump-hat\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24694\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trump-hat-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trump-hat-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trump-hat-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trump-hat.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">&ldquo;The clerk said &lsquo;all rise&rsquo; and the door opens and Justice Zabel comes out. He is in a black silk robe with the crimson sash and the white tie. He has a poppy on his lapel. And he is wearing a scarlet-coloured baseball cap that says Make America Great Again. And we all stand because we are supposed to stand when the judge comes in and he looks at everyone and said he was wearing the hat &lsquo;because last night was an historic occasion,&rsquo;&rdquo; the source told The Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">&ldquo;He took the hat off and put it on the bench so everybody could look while he continued his court business. He didn&rsquo;t put it away. It was sitting on the bench.&rdquo; Mr. Zabel then came back with the hat after morning break, the source said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">In my book, this is totally unacceptable. &nbsp;For an institution that is impartial and must be seen to be impartial, this judge sets the wrong tone. &nbsp;Kellie Leitch,&nbsp;MP for Simcoe-Grey in Ontario, is excited about Drumphenfarten&#39;s win in the US and has called for his agenda, particularly his immigration agenda, in Canada. With that kind of rhetoric around, the courts should not be influenced as well. &nbsp;BTW, Leitch is running for the leadership of the federal Conservative party to replace Herr Harper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2016\/03\/05\/the-last-leg-bricking-it-for-canada-campaign-border-wall_n_9389574.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Huffington Post UK<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">&nbsp;<\/span>&#8212;<span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong> Hat Tip Evelyn B Care2 through the Napster&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span>&#8212; When Republican frontrunner <a data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:1,&quot;plid&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/news\/donald-trump\/&quot;}}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/news\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_hplink\"><font color=\"#058b7b\">Donald Trump<\/font><\/a> enjoyed a number of wins on <a data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:2,&quot;plid&quot;:&quot;super-tuesday-donald-trump-hilary-clinton-democrats-republicans_n_9354014.html&quot;}}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2016\/03\/01\/super-tuesday-donald-trump-hilary-clinton-democrats-republicans_n_9354014.html\" target=\"_hplink\"><font color=\"#058b7b\">Super Tuesday<\/font><\/a> earlier this week, it seems that a number of Americans began considering a rather drastic option: moving to <a data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:3,&quot;plid&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/news\/canada\/&quot;}}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/news\/canada\/\" target=\"_hplink\"><font color=\"#058b7b\">Canada<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p><a data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:4,&quot;plid&quot;:&quot;americans-google-how-to-m_n_9363864.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-donald-trump&quot;}}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2016\/03\/02\/americans-google-how-to-m_n_9363864.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-donald-trump\" target=\"_hplink\"><font color=\"#058b7b\">Google searches for advice on this costly yet somewhat understand click able venture spiked<\/font><\/a> dramatically after Trump&rsquo;s victories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QFfUSxPUXKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But it looks like US citizens keen to escape the growing popularity of Trump &#8211; and perhaps even the nightmarish possibility of him becoming president &#8211; could find themselves facing a particularly big hurdle. Or at least if <a data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:5,&quot;plid&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/news\/adam-hills\/&quot;}}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/news\/adam-hills\/\" target=\"_hplink\"><font color=\"#058b7b\">Adam Hills<\/font><\/a> has anything to do with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Click through for the remainder of the story.&nbsp; There is a link in the story where you can click for bricks or you can click here <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickingitforcanada.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>bricking it for canada<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">.&nbsp; Although this article dates back to 16 March 2016, it&#39;s even more appropriate now that Fuhrer Drumphenfarten&nbsp;has won the golden ring, so to speak. &nbsp;The total bricks is at 2,057,675,870 and still rising!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>My Political Universe &#8212;&nbsp;<\/strong>I always liked George Carlin!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"george-carlin-stupid-people\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24707\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/george-carlin-stupid-people-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/george-carlin-stupid-people-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/george-carlin-stupid-people-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/george-carlin-stupid-people-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/george-carlin-stupid-people-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/george-carlin-stupid-people-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/george-carlin-stupid-people-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/george-carlin-stupid-people-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/george-carlin-stupid-people.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I cruise through the internet now,&nbsp;I always find too much to share. &nbsp;Before the election, I thought the US would have Madame President-elect and the tempo would quiet down a bit. &nbsp;Instead, the US got Herr President-elect, Fuhrer Drumphenfarten as TC would say. &nbsp;Things will not quiet down but instead ramp up like never <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/12\/squatchs-open-thread-12112016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}